Senior Cloud Security Automation Engineer

SAP SE; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP NS2 seeks a Security Automation Engineer to provide technical leadership on automation tooling and pipelines, architecting and maintaining IaC, and securing microservice architectures across cloud platforms. You will collaborate on cloud-native security, logging, and CI/CD automation within a fast-paced, mission-focused environment.

Ideal candidates bring deep Kubernetes and cloud security experience, hands-on AWS/GCP/Azure capabilities, and a proactive, collaborative approach to solving

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 10+ years' equivalent technology experience.
• 3+ years’ experience administering Kubernetes clusters on cloud platforms.
• 3+ years’ experience building scalable security utilities and tools.
• 3+ years’ experience in host, network, and application security.
• 5+ years’ experience with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture.
• 5+ years’ hands-on experience building and administering AWS workloads.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
• Design, implement, and manage microservice system architectures on cloud platforms including Amazon EKS/ECS, Google GKE, and Azure AKS to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Implement Kubernetes security best practices, including IAM integration, secrets management, and network policies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to container orchestration, cloud networking (VPCs, load balancers), and resource allocation across cloud providers and security boundaries.
• Architect, develop, and maintain distributed, scalable logging pipelines using tools such as AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Vector, and Splunk.
• Automating builds and configurations of security tooling infrastructure using CI/CD pipeline tools such as ArgoCD, Concourse, and GitHub Actions.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Security tooling

IaC

CI/CD

Education

BS degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

SAP NS2 seeks a Security Automation Engineer to provide technical leadership on automation tooling and pipelines, architecting and maintaining IaC, and securing microservice architectures across cloud platforms. You will collaborate on cloud-native security, logging, and CI/CD automation within a fast-paced, mission-focused environment.

Ideal candidates bring deep Kubernetes and cloud security experience, hands-on AWS/GCP/Azure capabilities, and a proactive, collaborative approach to solving